Fire-kindler.



No. 748,312. z PATBNTED DEG. 29, 1903. E. G. sAUHsE.

FIRE KINDLER.

APPLIoA'rIoN FILED DB0. 1, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

No. '748,31 2Q :Patented December 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST C. SAOHSE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FIRE-KINDLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part oi' Letters Patent No. 748,312, dated December 29, 1903.

Application filed December l, 1902. Serial No. 133.472. (No model.)

T0 tu whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST C. SAoHsn, acitizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire- Kindlcrs; and I do hereby declare the follow-l ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains4 to' make and use the same. f'-

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in tire-kindlers, and has for its object to construct a kindler whichv is made in a series of blocks or sections that are held together in one cake until such time as it is desired to separate one or more of the cakes from the series for use.

The article of manufacture to which the `present invention and application relates is the result of new and improved processes for the manufacture of fire-kindlers, for which I have filed separate applications, and the mold employed in connection with my processes and which is used to shape the kindler has also been made the subject of a separate application, iiled June 6, 1902, Serial No.

110,032, and will hence not be speciiieally described herein.

The kindler or article of manufacture embodied in the present invention consists, brieiiy, in the cake which is molded so as to bereadily separable into sections or blocks, as desired, each section or block having one or more supporting-feet, whereby the body of the kindler block or section is supported above the grate-bars of the furnace and the ames may have more ready access to the body of the kindler.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying draw;

ings, forming a part of this specification,

and wherein like nu merals of reference will be employed for designating like parts throughout the different views, in which- Figure lis a top plan view of an entire cake of the kindler as taken from the mold, showing the blocks or sections joined together. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view thereof online 3 3 ot' Fig. 2. Fig. L.lT is a detail view of a single block or section, show- Fig. is a like view ing one supporting-foot.

of a single block or section, showing two supporting-feet. Fig. 6 is a like View showing the block or section provided with three supporting-feet, and Fig. 7 is a like view showing the block or section constructed with four supporting-feet.

In the production of my improved kindler I preferably employ a mold having ten or more compartments, so that a like number of blocks or sections of the kindler will be einbodied in each entire cake thereof. Oi'v course as many compartments maybe employed as may be desired; but in practice I have employed a mold lhaving at least ten compartments.

In the manufacture of my kindler I employ lstable-manure, horse-bedding, wood chips, vshav1ngs, hay, straw, corncobs, and like materials, which, as has been described in my.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a cake 1 as it is receivedfrom the mold. This calze is shown as comprising ten sections or, blocks, preferably all held to gether by the thin web or portion 2 of the cake, the mold in practice being so construct' ed as to form this thin portion, and thus hold the several blocks or sections together. It will be evident that the sections or blocks may be so molded that each will be separate from the others; but IV prefer to hold the series together by the binding web or rib r2, as described. Each cake, as stated, is composed of several blocks" or sections, and each of these blocks or sections 8 is provided on its underneath face with one or more feet 4,

preferably tapered, as shown, so that the walls thereof are inclined. These feet are formed by depressions in the bottom plate of the mold, and each block or section of the cake formed in one mold is preferably provided with the inclined walls, so that the dames Will readily rise around the same and have ready access thereto. It will be evident that the supporting-feet may be dispensed with or that one or more of the supporting-feet may be provided on each block 'or section and that where only one is employed the same may be made larger thanwhere two or more are formed on each block or section, the object of these feet being to support the main body of the kindler above the grate-bars in order that the lire may have more ready access to the body of the kindler.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In testimony whereof I aflx my signature 1npresence of two witnesses.

ERNEST C. SAOHSE. Witnesses:

WM. S. WITTLER, AMBROSE J. RILEY.

periphery thereof, substantially as described.- 

